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The Growing Antisemitism Among Young Americans: ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has a new essay in Time where he highlights an alarming trend.
“Negative attitudes about Jews, and negative experiences for Jews, by every metric, are growing, not fading. And most troubling, antisemitism — for the first time — is growing among younger generations of Americans, portending a very different and dark future for the American Jewish community. Since 1964, ADL has regularly conducted a comprehensive study of antisemitic attitudes. And time after time, we reliably found that antisemitism was stronger among older Americans and weaker among younger. This made intuitive sense as younger people would generally be more accepting, and as they aged, antisemitism would fade. In ADL’s most recent survey, however, we found
this trend has reversed.”
→ Click here to read the rest of Jonathan’s column on Time.com.
U.S.-Based Islamist Org Hosts Conference with Antisemitic + Anti-Israel Speakers:
Earlier this month in Illinois, an international Islamist organization that seeks to establish an Islamic theocracy held their annual conference. It featured speakers who called for an army to invade and destroy Israel, justified the October 7 Hamas terror attack and, in several cases, espoused overt antisemitic rhetoric. The event was livestreamed by the group, the U.S. wing of Hizb Ut Tahrir.
→ Read more about the event and the host group in this backgrounder by the ADL Center on Extremism.
Resources About “Israeli Apartheid Week” and How to Take Action:
“Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW) is a series of radical anti-Zionist events organized each year by the BDS movement that are often marked by inflammatory rhetoric and intimidation and harassment of Jews. ADL has information about these events, which are usually in March, so you know more about them, how to connect with ADL if you feel unsafe on campus, and get recommendations on how to engage in advocacy during IAW.
→ Go to notoleranceforantisemitism.adl.org for information and resources.
Untangling False Claims About Ashkenazi Jews, Khazars and Israel:
One of the most insidious claims used in the months since Hamas’ brutal 10/7 assault on Israel to discredit both Jews and Israel is that Ashkenazi Jews (i.e., Jews who trace their ancestry to Northern and Eastern Europe) have no historical or genetic relationship to Jewish antiquity in the land of Israel — making Jews “colonizers” with no legitimate claim to the land that makes up the Jewish state. Some proponents of these claims invoke the so-called Khazar theory, which posits that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from a Turkic population of converts to Judaism known as the Khazars.
→ Read more about this in a report from the ADL Center on Extremism.
New House Bill to Protect Students from Discrimination:
ADL has tracked over 740 antisemitic incidents on campus from Oct. 7 - Feb. 20, compared to just 87 during the same time last year. Reps. Kathy Manning (D-NC) and Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) are expected to introduce a House version of the Protecting Students on Campus Act, which was already introduced in the Senate. We support this bipartisan effort to tackle the surge of campus antisemitism.
The Act seeks to increase student awareness of their rights to report antisemitism and other discrimination and calls on colleges that get federal funds to provide an annual report on complaints and how they are addressed. Institutions receiving the most complaints would be subject to audits.
→ Read more about the new bill, which aligns with the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, then go to our ‘Take Action Today’ box below to help this bill become a law.
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